Communist Party of Western Ukraine

The Communist Party of Western Ukraine (KPZU) was a political party in the Eastern Galicia (or "Western Ukraine") region of Poland during the Interwar period. The party was founded as the Communist Party of Eastern Galicia in 1915, and it was renamed in 1923 after the Polish-Soviet War. It was once influential in the Ukrainian SSR, but it declined in the 1920s after splitting into pro-Soviet and nationalist wings. In 1928, the nationalists were expelled from the Comintern, and the party, along with the Communist Party of Poland, was dissolved ten years later after it was accused of being taken over by fascist agents.